Quotes about Consciousness

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.

When we are all mind, things can get rigid.

Happiness consists in the consciousness of a life in which the highest Virtue is actively manifested.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.